The Eighties and it's music faithfully recreated in John Carney's delightful latest film.
It’s good
to know that there are still smaller more personal films that are not
depressing or cheap horror still being made and Sing Street, just released to buy, is a little gem. Telling that
age old but still engaging coming of age story it is also suffused with the
1980s in which it is set. It’s odd to consider that such an era is now
`historical drama` because I remember it well! As it seems does director/
writer John Carney (who also brought us Once)
because he has assembled a movie that mirrors the moves of many an Eighties
teen film yet relocated the narrative to a Dublin that is a long way removed
from the middle class settings of Pretty
in Pink and company. It works a treat and as a bonus you also get a clutch
of sings cheekily inspired by period hits yet still sounding fresh.
